***First Year Check-In***

Re: ***First Year Check-In***

• SarahPLiz member

  November 2011

  Sleep sucks at our house. Before the time change, he was sleeping 8p-4:30a and then until 7ish. The time change screwed him up, then he got croup, and I decided to transition him to the crib from the RNP and quit swaddling all at once. I am a glutton for punishment, I swear. But he sleeps just as bad swaddled now as unswaddled, so that might not be the issue. He will go to bed at 8p and sleep fine until Midnight, eat, then he's up every hour or so until about 4, then he'll eat and sleep until 7. This morning I had to wake him up at 7 to leave for work and he was not happy. He nursed, went back to sleep in the car and was still out when we got there at 8. BUT, I am finally getting him to nap during the day at home. 

   

  Update: DH is in Denver for work and we are flying there tomorrow afternoon to meet him. This will be my first plane ride with an infant and we have a middle seat. Thank goodness its only a 2 hour flight. DH will fly back with us on Monday. Oh, and its going to snow there tomorrow! I'm so excited about snow but not excited to drive in it. Sparky and I are having dinner with 2 Knotties tomorrow night and that has me pretty stoked.  

  
  

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• SaraLouiseBride08

  November 2011

  QOTW: Well, you see how ours is. It's a freakin' nightmare. She's tired, I'm tired. And "Dear" Husband wakes up refreshed in the mornings and asks, "Oh did she wake up a lot last night?" or "When did she come to our bed?" Okay, I'm really not that mad at him. I love that I'm still BFing, and when she's not violently crying, I love the midnight cuddles.

  Update: She's 11 months old today! I'm in shock. How did this happen?! She's walking about 40% of the time now. She spent about 2 months just taking a step or two here and there, then a few days ago, just started walking across rooms and walking when she could have been cruising. She's still not fast, thank goodness.

  And uh, so much for my grand plans to start birthday party planning 3 months out!

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• rssnlvr

  November 2011

  QOTW: As far as naps go, we're making progress! He's taking at least one 1.5-hour nap a day now. WOOT. Andandand, he's sooo much better about putting himself to sleep. We can do books, shushing, and then into crib awake and he (most of the time) is able to settle himself to sleep with minimal fussing. Nighttime sleep (barring the sleep disaster that has hit our house with the croup) is just . . . okay. I'm fine still getting up with him at night--I like the stillness, the sleepy cuddles, etc. But I want to feel like he's making progress in the sleep department on his own. We had a solid couple of weeks when he consistently slept 9-10 hours, but now he's back to waking at ANY point--could be midnight, could be 10 p.m., could be 4 a.m. We were in Dallas for a week where he was in the PNP, so maybe that threw him off? And now with the croup, I have no idea what his actual overnight sleep looks like. I just want to feel like he's making progress on his own, and I'm not sure that he is.

  Update: Croup sucksass. Monday night I got maybe 3.5 hours of sleep, and I think DH got less. But he's better now (hallelujah!) and slept from 12:30-5:30 last night. Sweet!  We started solids and he's not a huge fan. He's still pushing most out with his tongue. He's babbling with multiple consonant and vowel sounds now (b, d, p, etc.) and his little voice is so sweet. Even through all the croupy nastiness, he was still such a happy, smiley little guy. I have no idea how I ended up with such totally awesome kiddos.
  

  Dear Bump: You suck.

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• jml5q

  November 2011

  QOTW: Night time sleep is great. He goes down easy and can even put himself to sleep - a big difference from DD who used to always fall asleep on the boob and i'd slowly transfer her to the crib. He usually still wakes up once to eat, usually around 4am. Although a he has sleep completely throught the night a few times.

  Naps are another story. Yesterday he napped for 50 minutes at daycare (he did get there at 11am), but 50 minutes for the 6.5 hours he was there. His teacher said he was happy, just wouldn't take a nap. And during our trip home last week he'd only sleep on people and the minute you put him in the PNP he'd wake up. We'll see what the weekend brings for naps, now that we are back home. He was still sleeping in the swing for naps, but i'm thinking i might need to get him in the crib soon for them.

  Updates: We had an appointment yesterday at Dell with the crainofacial specialist about his head. They think it has a very mild case of flatness that should improve the more he's off his back. But i'm more worried about the size than the shape, he's now down to the 2.4 percentile. Granted he only started at 10%, but each time we get it check it keeps going down. They seem to think since he's still somewhat on the curve it's fine, but of course i can't help but worry. But they did rule out his skull being prematurely fused together so that's a good thing. We go back in 6 weeks for another check.

  

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• intheatx

  November 2011

  QOTW: Sleep currently sucks at our house, too. Two weeks ago, we made it a whole week of DD sleeping flat on her back in her crib, and she was going longer and longer between wakings. Then, we ran out of reflux meds at the start of a weekend, DD had a tummy bug for four days, and then we went out of town for T-giving. Screwed everything up. She's back on her reflux meds, but is sleeping on the wedge again. She wakes up 3-4 times a night screaming like she's being stuck with hot pokers, and the only thing that helps is to feed her. A lot. She also seems to have forgotten how to self-soothe (she's a thumb sucker, and I haven't seen the thumb in her mouth for days). I also quit nursing completely in the last 3 days, so that's not helping things. Hopefully we can work on losing the wedge again this weekend, and then start working on getting her to sleep for longer stretches. Momma needs some rest. 

   

  Update: not much new...DD got the boot from the little baby room at day care, effective tomorrow, so she'll be with the crawlers. I'm excited for her to have some more interactive babies to play with, but am hoping she won't figure out crawling until after Christmas - selfishly, I cannot face the child proofing right now. Also, DD has developed a recent aversion to her car seat. It started after our (long) car trip last week. She does fine on our morning drive to day care, but any other time, she starts screaming bloody murder as soon as its apparent that's where she'd going. Its so distressing to listen to her cry like that while trying to focus on driving. I'm telling myself it's just a phase, but man, I hope it passes quickly.  

  
  
  
  
  **the nestie formerly known as karen2508**

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• BSE

  November 2011

  QOTW: dd is great once she's asleep but we still use the feed her and slowly transfer her into the crib method. she' still super swaddled and sleeps so much better like that. however, she's 6 months today! and i'm ready for some sleep training so she can go to bed drowsy and fall asleep. i'm getting a bunch of sleep training books from the library and in the next couple weeks we'll start working on that.

   updates: she's doing great. we are going to start purees soon. we gave her a tiny bit of sweet potato at thanksgiving and she seemed to like it- probably cause it taste way better then the rice cereal she's been eating! she's grabbing things and has discovered her feet. she rolled over a couple times from tummy to back but we are doing a lot of tummy time to encourage her to do it more and also go from back to tummy. i can't believe we are half way to a year. it went by so fast!
  

  

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• MammaOwl11

  November 2011

  I'd like to be added to the list!

  DD (Alexa) 8/22/11

  QOTW:  In the last month sleep has really gone downhill for us.  There was the move to Austin, next weekend the time change, and on top of all of that she has started teething and hit her 3 month growth spurt which threw of her eating AND sleeping.  However, she seemed to make the transition to the sleep sack without any trouble so that was a plus!  The first part of the night is typically good.  Our bedtime routine has helped a lot and she goes down without a fuss (last night she even put her self to sleep with our new crib soother).  Sometimes she will sleep as long as 5 hours on this first stretch.  But then it's up every hour to two hours the rest of the night.  Last night was especially bad because I also had a migraine and she decided around 5:00am that she was ready to wake up.  After being up and down from 5-6:00 she finally went back to sleep until 7:30am.  Naps are beginning to get back on track.  She typically takes two really long, 2-3 hour naps and then another < 1 hour cat nap or two.  Today we messed this up by going to the pedi so she's napping for 30-45 minutes every two hours (like she was most of the month).  Hopefully tomorrow will be better!

  Update: Today at the pedi she was 14 lbs 4 oz!  Yesterday she found her feet and now she's pulling at her footed jammies until I take them off and she can grab at her toes. PIP  We are also coming very close to rolling from back to tummy... but nothing yet.

   

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• el_twirpo member

  November 2011

  QOTW: sleep is finally starting to get longer and longer. DS has consistently been sleeping at least a 4 hour stretch at night. he's slept as many as 5.5 hours, wake up for a diaper change/feeding and go back to bed easily. night time seems to be the hardest as far as getting him to go to sleep, but once he's out, he's out. daytime naps are a little hit and miss. that may be my fault since i want to get out of the house and transferring him in/out of the car tends to wake him up.

  Update: he's smiling back!! and "talking" a ton. he really is getting to be more fun every day, which makes me sad when i think about having to go back to work in january. so i'm just trying to soak up all this time i have left of maternity leave and get a decent freezer stash of milk stored away.

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